Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 May 2019

Public Accounts Committee

National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Mr. Paul Quinn:

Of course. Again, the work of the committee was to oversee the tenders in place. A lot of reporting was taking place from the various evaluation teams. We were walking through how those evaluations had taken place. We had established a procurement auditor whose job it was to provide detailed oversight at arm's length from the board and the evaluation teams. The idea was to bring a degree of oversight to the procurement processes. The auditor reported to the procurement committee on several occasions during the procurement process. There was, therefore, considerable activity in overseeing the work of the evaluation teams.